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President-elect taps heir of leftist icons as chief of staff

Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum announces a member of her cabinet in Mexico City

Mexico President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum speaks at an event to announce that she has chosen Lazaro Cardenas to be her government's chief of staff.

MEXICO CITY � Mexico President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Thursday that she has chosen Lazaro Cardenas, a former congressman and governor and a scion of two of Mexico's most emblematic leftists, to be her chief of staff.

Cardenas, 60, is the son of Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, an elder statesman of Mexico's left who co-founded the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), governed Mexico City, and ran for president three times.





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